Alexander Bogen collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523194
• English
• overall: Height: 9.690 inches (24.613 cm) | Width: 13.620 inches (34.595 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Sketch created by Alexander Bogen while he was a partisan fighter in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia during World War II. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania and neighboring countries. In the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews interned there by the Germans. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupying German military. He helped lead ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523195
• English
• 1943-1944
• overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Depth: 1.120 inches (2.845 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Woodblock designed by Alexander Bogen for printing a scene of a German officer menacing a group of Jews, and on the back, two soldiers sitting in the forest. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania and neighboring countries. In the ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews interned there by the Germans. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia, who carried out sabotage and oth...